St. Benedict and the Fear of the Lord Throughout the ancient world the God’s were something that people loved and hated. They did have a certain fear from their gods, but it wasn’t like that kind of fear of the Middle Ages. With Christianity coming into full stride, the mentality of the time was that God was something to be feared. This is something of importance, the middle ages are riddled with the fear of god and people spend their whole lives in that constant shadow. This is noticeable in our first reading. In The Rule of St. Benedict he goes about on how to live a monastic life, an